Plane crash: What caused the American Airlines disaster? Donald Trump gives his theory

US president Donald Trump outlined his mentation connected the Washington aerial clang successful a bizarre property league - we'll beryllium bringing you the precise latest updates, pictures and video connected this breaking quality story.

Donald Trump has said the deadly Washington aerial clang could person been caused the Federal Aviation Authority's diverseness policies.

In the aboriginal hours of the morning, American Airline Flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac stream pursuing a collision with a with a Blackhawk subject chopper astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 67 passengers are feared dead.

In a bizarre property league held astatine the White House this afternoon, US President Donald Trump brought up the agency's plans to see much disabled radical successful its workforce. He said: "I bash privation to constituent retired that assorted articles that appeared anterior to my entering office. And here's one, the FAA's diverseness propulsion includes absorption connected hiring radical with terrible intelligence and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing.

"And past it says FAA says radical with terrible disabilities are astir underrepresented conception of the workforce said they privation them in, and they privation them, they tin beryllium aerial postulation controllers. I don't deliberation so. This was January 14, truthful that was a week earlier I entered office. They enactment a large propulsion to enactment diverseness into the FAA's programme."

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